Test 10 · How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding

What other animals have front teeth that never stop growing, like mice?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: other animals, front teeth · What happens: have, not stop, grow · To what, where: front teeth

This is test 10 of lesson 120 «How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 have	obj
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 animals	amod
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 teeth	amod
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 stop	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 stop	advmod
9	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 teeth	acl:relcl
10	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 stop	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mice	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 mice	case
13	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 growing	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	other animals	front teeth		tree rules
2	not stop	present	front teeth			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	grow	gerund	front teeth not said here		like mice	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Rats, squirrels, beavers and rabbits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 squirrels	punct
3	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Rats	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 beavers	punct
5	beavers	beaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Rats	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 rabbits	cc
7	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Rats	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Snakes and lizards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 lizards	cc
3	lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Snakes	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Owls and hawks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 hawks	cc
3	hawks	hawk	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Owls	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Cats, dogs and lions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dogs	punct
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Cats	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 lions	cc
5	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Cats	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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